Word: preventable
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Amnesty is, however, long off the agenda. By wisely recognizing that those who have been the country since 1982 have a stake in the country and that only legalization can prevent employers from exploiting immigrant labor, Congressional compromise ended debate on the amnesty issue. Is the INS unsatisfied, or does it wish to exploit nativist fears in order to expand its powers? Whatever its intent, the Immigration and Naturalization Service could do us all a service by easing off and not going out of its way to create confusion and to instill fear into the lives of countless individuals...
Despite the high hopes raised among AIDS patients by the experimental drug AZT, the panel predicts that development of a safe, effective drug to halt or cure the disease or a vaccine that would prevent infection looks to be at least five years away. The time could be even longer, the panel said, if efforts are not stepped up greatly now. In France, however, some AIDS researchers appear more hopeful. Dr. Marc Girard of the Pasteur Institute in Paris announced last week that a vaccine developed there should be ready for human trials sometime next year. The vaccine was developed...
...French reportedly intimated to LARF leaders that the evidence in the case is weak, and Abdallah is likely to be acquitted. While French officials denied that there was any formal truce with the Abdallahs, they admitted that government-to-government negotiations had been undertaken with Syria and others to prevent a recurrence of the Paris bombings...
Rose E. Bird, the 49-year-old former chief justice of the California Supreme Court, and the other liberal justices on the court have used the exclusionary rule alone to prevent the executions of more than 40 convicts on California's death...
...public school program will aim to prevent youngsters from becoming bullies, Selman said. "It's only this year that I've felt comfortable to shift the emphasis from treatment to prevention," he said...